On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 22:37:57 -0000, "christofire"
wrote:


"Dave" wrote in message
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"christofire" wrote in message
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"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 19:51:34 -0000, "christofire"
wrote:


"JosephKK" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:16:22 -0000, "christofire"
wrote:

almighty snip -----

Say Chris, how about you set your Outhouse Express news/mail client to
use a quote character. It is good manners in news groups.


Joseph, please explain (and excuse my bad manners!) - use a quote
character
for what?

Are you referring to my use of the pairs of single quotation marks 'xxx'
in
what I'd written? I usually reserve double quotation marks "qqq" for
actual
quotations; things that people have said ... but I suspect you're
referring
to something else.

Chris


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An example follows:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:16:22 -0000, "christofire"
wrote:

Hi Chris,
I need a bit more with respect to your response in more layman terms

When a multi turn helix is generated it can be used for both
transmitting and receiving.
When generating two helix antennas where one is contra wound and both
are connected at the top
you are saying that it will NOT be suitable for receiving !
We know by common use that the single helix is good for transmitt and
receive . So what exactly
does the addition of the contra winding do to prevent the combination
from receiving?
Looking forward to your take on the question.
Best regards
Art


OK. The term 'helix' is most often applied to the travelling-wave
antenna
invented by John Kraus, often used at VHF and above, which generates or
receives a circularly-polarised wave predominantly in the direction of
its
axis. It is also used in 'normal-mode helix' for the type of monopole
element often found on walkie talkies, that generates and receives a
linearly-polarised wave. Both of these are connected to electronics at
one
end only.


This sample, directly above, shows no distinction between your writing
and the post you responded to. I pointed this out last week in
another thread. However, at the top of this post above the starred
line, you clearly follow quoting conventions.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


I have the 'Plain Text Settings' option 'Indent the original text with
when replying or forwarding' ticked in OE and I can't account for why it
isn't working. I guess an incomplete sequence of cascaded s could
make the historical record difficult to follow. I wonder if this has
happened when I have snipped the accumulated message trail.

Chris


its not your fault. some news senders, like art, send in a format that oe
can't figure out how to indent and . i have tried lots of combinations
and the only one that works is to send in html format with the vertical
bar quoting.

Thank you for that ... and I gather some get equally irritated about people
sending HTML.

Chris

I am not so sure that is only OE having a bad reaction to some other
non-conforming news reader. Just the same i can easily see OE getting
confused by a non-conforming news post more easily than any other news
client.